Clinic boss part-time: Stefan Huber takes over management in Starnberg

Created: 01/11/2023, 03:00 p.m

By: Tobias Gmach

Stefan Huber is the new managing director of the Starnberg Clinic.

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Stefan Huber, known as the managing director of the Ebersberg district clinic, is now in charge of the Starnberg clinic - because his predecessor is ill.

A different role was actually intended for Huber.

Starnberg – The Starnberg Clinic has had a new managing director since the beginning of the year.

But initially he only has four days a week to run the hospital – because he runs another one too.

The press office of the clinic reported on Tuesday that the previous managing director Heiner Kelbel was "long-term ill".

Although he will remain an employee of the Starnberger Kliniken network, he has given up management after more than five years.

His successor is Stefan Huber, 48 years old, father of two from the district of Ebersberg.

Huber was actually supposed to be in charge of the Penzberg Clinic from this year, he was also supposed to be in charge of the Schindlbeck Clinic and to play a leading role in the construction of the new hospital in Herrsching.

Now everything is different because of Kelbel's illness, a "reversal" reports clinic spokesman Stefan Berger.

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Thomas Weiler, the managing director of the Starnberger Kliniken holding, will remain the head of the Penzberger Klinik and the Seefeld Hospital.

He runs the Schindlbeck Clinic in Herrsching together with Robert Schindlbeck.

Stefan Huber is not yet able to put all his strength into his Starnberg job because he also has to look after the district clinic in Ebersberg two days a week.

He has been running it for 14 years.

But since he announced his move to Starnberg, the supervisory board of the Ebersberg Clinic has not found a successor for him.

Starnberg and Ebersberg: Six-day week for the head of two clinics

The interim solution is just four days in Starnberg and a total of a six-day week for Huber - "probably by the middle of the year," says spokesman Berger.

"After Heiner Kelbel's absence due to illness, to whom we wish all the best and a speedy recovery, it was the most obvious solution," says Weiler, CEO of the holding company.

Weiler has known Huber for a long time thanks to the membership of both clinics in the "Gesundheit Oberbayern" association and calls him a "highly qualified colleague who is not a blank slate in the region".

He is also familiar with the structures of the health care system in the Oberland.

Huber was introduced to the hospital staff at the works meeting in mid-December.

According to the press release, the 48-year-old encouraged them.

It is a difficult time for all hospitals in Germany, but the reforms announced by Health Minister Karl Lauterbach would have a major impact on the clinics, said Huber, emphasizing: "But we too will have to break new ground." For example, it is important to reduce temporary workers.